It's honestly so depressing. They plan to read out the rules at the beginning of the march too.
Don't really want to distract from the main point, but this sort of nonsense is pretty prototypical of the whole thing.
Helen Joyce reposted this rather good essay on the subject the other day. It breaks down all the mechanisms and factors that get you into this sort of mess.
https://paulgraham.com/woke.html
Intro:
The word "prig" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it will sound familiar. Google's isn't bad:
"A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others."
This sense of the word originated in the 18th century, and its age is an important clue: it shows that although wokeness is a comparatively recent phenomenon, it's an instance of a much older one.
There's a certain kind of person who's attracted to a shallow, exacting kind of moral purity, and who demonstrates his purity by attacking anyone who breaks the rules. Every society has these people. All that changes is the rules they enforce. In Victorian England it was Christian virtue. In Stalin's Russia it was orthodox Marxism-Leninism. For the woke, it's social justice.
So if you want to understand wokeness, the question to ask is not why people behave this way. Every society has prigs. The question to ask is why our prigs are priggish about these ideas, at this moment. And to answer that we have to ask when and where wokeness began.